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The Westbourne Grove and Peckham Branch Post Offices were also burglariously entered in the same year.

From The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time by Tombs, Robert Charles

So he is not to be married burglariously and forcibly?

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Our chicken coops were made snake-proof, but a more than ordinarily, crafty individual burglariously broke into one, and the hen and chickens sounded the alarm.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

While she is thus burglariously employed, Lord Eric enters, and cannot refrain from a slight expression of surprise.

From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William

Though true it may be, that of moonlight nights, jewelers' caskets and maidens' hearts have been burglariously broken into—and rifled, for aught Copernicus can tell.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman